Zoom art session celebrates Indigenous culture

COVID-19 has forced many events to be postponed, including the annual National NAIDOC Week usually celebrated in July. While the official week of events has been moved to November, Deakin staff found an innovative way to virtually mark NAIDOC Week and celebrate Indigenous culture while connecting community from across Australia.

On Thursday 9 July, Deakin’s National Indigenous Knowledges Education Research Innovation (NIKERI) Institute hosted a seven-hour live Zoom art session that resulted in a collaborative mural. Local, international and interstate participants were able to drop in and out of the durational session, and share their own history, memories and stories to be interpreted by artists Kiri Wicks (Partnerships Coordinator for NIKERI Institute) and Dr Jenny Murray-Jones (Visual Arts Co-ordinator and Lecturer, NIKERI Institute) using paint.

Refer to article in Network by Katelyn Swallow for more information.